THE AUCKLAND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE.

Auckland Star, Volume XXIV, Issue 248, 19 October 1893, Page 2

THE AUCKLAND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE.

(To tho Editor.)

Sir,—l am pleased to see that my letters sont eornc years ago to Auckland University Council have been at last published. I there pleaded the cause of the real students of the College ; I moan those who did nothing else bub study under tho guidanco of tho profeasora. I was not writing to the public nor to tho Registrar, but to the Council who were in full possession of tho facts on both sides ; so that it was only necessary for me to pub the case as forcibly as I could in favour of the day students. Tho Council knew well the work that tho Professors were doing. I wanted more of this work for the' young matriculated students. Indeed, ib is a pity fchnb in order to complete the whole subject you did not also give the forcible and eloquent reply of Sir Maurice O'Rorke.when the matter was made public, on behalf of the work dono by the professors, an oration so brilliant and so conclusive that everybody but myself was convinced that I had done something very wrong. It was shown that the Professors were only too eager to carry out the wishes of the Council, and it appeared to me, though Idared not ab the time montion it to anyone else, that they were so employed in the work of popularising the Institution that there was littlo time left for tho real work of the College My view was that the whole work should be devoted to the day students, or at least the main parb of the work ; bub there was no question on either side that the professors were not fully employed. I was as fully convinced aa the Council that honourable men were nob likely to lose for the mere matter of work tho high roputation they had enjoyed. I sincerely hope that the case of the day students will be greatly improved by this publicity, and that they may bo pub on as favourable a footing as in other colleges. 1 am astonished to find that my action in tho cbbo of the College haa been publicly commended; ib is more than was done threo years ago even in private, unless in a very guarded manner.—l am, etc., Jas. Adams.

(To tho Editor.) Sik, —So far as I can learn from the published report of the proceedings of tho deputation to the College Council on Monday, there was nob a single good reason advanced why—in face ot what haß transpired—Professor Aldis's services should bo retained. The members of the deputation, evidently in their predisposition to judge harshly of the conduct of tho Council toward the Professor, had fallen into several errors in his favour, which, howevor, were promptly corrected by the Chairman. The Council, to my mind, treated the Professor with the greatest consideration and gave him every opportunity to settle the difficulty amicably, while he in return set that body at naught). If outside influence, however strong it may be, is allowed to interfere with the decision, after mature consideration, of a body of gentlemen like those composing the College Council, and after its authority has been treated with contempt, then I would not give much for its power of control in the future. —I am, etc., X.Y.Z.